TY - BOOK AU - Birtha,Becky AU - Tadgell,Nicole TI - Lucky beans SN - 0807547824 (hc) PY - 2010/// CY - Chicago, Ill. PB - Albert Whitman & Co. KW - African Americans KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Arithmetic KW - Contests KW - Depressions KW - 1929 KW - United States KW - Families KW - Family life KW - Fiction KW - History KW - 1919-1933 N1 - Ages 5-9 N2 - During the Great Depression, Marshall, an African American boy, uses lessons learned in arithmetic class and guidance from his mother to figure out how many beans are in a jar in order to win her a new sewing machine in a contest ER -